Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-02
IS Morris Easearlneis positive cure for
dyspspsia,s Pleasant to taks, mild in &C
tion and qhfsiing 10 cure.
Life in Tenement street., London.
All the Year Ror.nd 81

AL Tue car hoUhu.
The coasters and iish-hawkers do no
go to Covent Garden or Billiogsgste mar
kets. Their transactions are scarcely
upon a scale suitable to those great marts
they get their goods from certain loca
dealers, VINO make the supply of barrow
and basket traders special branch OF
their business. They serve that class OF
customers IN smaller quantities than they
could obtain at the garden or the gate,
aud at prices very little higher than gate
or garden rate. Such dried fish as the
hawkers of Tenement street deal in
haddocks, bloaters, kippered, herr NC, and
occasionally kippered mackerel-beiug
favorite "relishes" with the working
classes, the street traders at once take
that portion of their stock on breakfast
round, calling on their way back for the
"wet-ish," which is the staple of their
later and principal round. The coasters,
and the itlnerant dealers generally, come
straight home with their days stock, and
have breakfast, and arrange their goods,
before going on round. The women who
go out washing and charring, and the
girls who go out step cleaning, leave home
between and 8. The last to start are
the travelling craftsmen-the chair-caners,
neutrality-suspicious., tinkers, and the like.
They do not set out until about 0 o'clock,
but their going forth thus late is no indi-
cation OF lack of energy upon their part.
Many Of them will have done an hour or
two's indoor work before taking the
road, but they find from experience that
it is useless to strike their ground "till
turned ten" Earlier than that, they will
tell you, "the slaveys, let alone the
ladies'" are not prepared to give atten-
ton to such odds and ends as the recaniDg
of chair, or the repairing of leaky tea
pot, or to negotiate the sale or barter of
household lumber or cast-off wearn g
apparel.
Those of the inhabitants of Tenement
street who can make it convenient to do
so, breakfast before leaving home for the
day: that is, when they are in position
to breakfast at all, which is not invariably
the case. The jewellers in Tenement street
have, perforce, to go upon the "streaky"
principle in the matter of feeding. One
day the family may be without the means
to procure loaf of bread wherewith to
break their fast: the next morning they
may be in position to indulge in what
they consider quite a "high" meal; to
have not merely "a good rough fill" of
bread and butter with tea and coffee, but
q "relish" in addition-a paddock, or
bacon and eggs, or it may even be chop
or steak, selected from the "bIock orna-
ment" tray of the cheap butchers, and
purchased over night in q falling market.
When they can so indulge, they do. They
make the most of the good, as they make
the best of the evil, of the passing day
If fast they must, they bear hunger with
but little complaining; if fast they can,
they fast unnesitatingly and rel icingly, |
though the general course of their llv. s |
S rather between than in these extremes. |
Breakfa t and supper are the chi meals
Of the people of Tenement street; and
indeed, with many Of them, the only |
meals. They are out from morning till |
light, and even though they might be in a |
position to "run to" midday meal at
lone, they can no: afford to dine out |
IN their breakfasts they stand their days |
work; on their suppers they recuperate
t .er it.